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snow falling on cedar
Title: snow falling on cedar
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 638 | Pages: 2.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
snow falling on cedar
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During the dark days of World War II, the American government made a decision based on prejudice and fear, to intern Japanese Americans. These interment camps were largely based in the Northwest. Hardworking Japanese citizens were forcibly taken from their jobs and homes and held against their will. It is a part of the history that the people are now ashamed of and rightfully so. This was caused …showed first 75 words of 638 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 638 total…One of those kendo strikes the Japs used.’…’Stick fighting,’ said Horace explained, ‘Japs are trained in it from when they’re kids. How to kill with sticks’”(257). The assumption of the Japanese acknowledging how to use Kendo as a weapon to kill was a fear that came from them. Since that Kabuo was Japanese, they automatically assume that he knew that type of martial arts as well. The fear was projected on to something
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